Results 1-20 of 27 for immigration speaker:Catherine Connolly

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...been no convictions. We gave free rein to the idea that a building can be burnt down, which I absolutely deplore. I will talk about asylum seekers and the deliberate of blurring of words - immigration, asylum seekers and refugees - and why it is important not to do that. Before doing that, I have no hesitation in absolutely condemning arson. I come from Galway city. I described a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...submissions have repeatedly itemised the previous occasions on which the Government tried to do this. The first was in 2000 when it attempted to get rid of the ex parte. It had to put it back in 2010. The Government also had to do something similar with asylum and immigration cases where the narrative was they were clogging up the system. The reality was the Government had to reinstate...

Immigration: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a deferred division relating to the Labour Party amendment to the Government amendment to the motion regarding immigration. Today, on the question, "That the amendment to the amendment be made", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...this position was the director of the arms company Raytheon Technologies Corporation, which has increased the value of its shares throughout the war in Ukraine by 17%. Ireland has credibility as a proud neutral country, wrought out of pain and suffering from our history of being colonised, from a Famine, and from our experience of mass immigration. Our policy has been wrought out of that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 584. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 407 of 4 May 2022, when the external review of the Immigration Investor Programme will be published; the reason underpinning the decision to discontinue the programme; the status of all applications in respect of which a decision to approve or reject has yet to be made; and if he will...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...lead on the work. I make a strong appeal for it to be included in the Bill as it progresses through the Dáil. The second main recommendation of the review group is that "any AWS Fisher with a current immigration permission, and who wishes to do so, have their existing immigration permission extended for a period of time, to be agreed by the relevant Departments, to allow them to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (17 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 405 of 4 May 2022, the number of residence permissions under Stamp 4 conditions granted in respect of each successful immigrant investor programme application; the nationality of each person granted residence permission; the number of D reside visas granted in respect of each successful immigrant investor...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (4 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 405. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of immigrant investor programme applications received, by year, since 2012; the number of successful applications, by year, since 2012; the number of visas granted in respect of each application, by year, since 2012; the value of the investment or donation in respect of each successful application; the details of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (4 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria applied when assessing applications under the immigrant investor programme; the membership of the evaluation committee that examines the application and enterprise, fund or project in which the applicant wishes to invest; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22339/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (4 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 407. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all evaluations or reviews carried out or commissioned by her Department into the immigrant investor programme since 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (4 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 408. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the legislative or policy basis for the immigrant investor programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (2 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...scheme to allow for financial hardship exemptions in cases in which applicants are unable to meet the cost of the application fees or in respect of successful applicants for whom additional immigration fees may apply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5256/22]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (14 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...area at Northern Cross; (15) Deputy Chris Andrews - to discuss the 14.4% cost increase in school transport for children with additional needs in south Dublin; (16) Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú - to discuss planned changes to the British immigration rules and the implications of the UK nationality and borders Bill; (17) Deputy Catherine Connolly - to discuss a review of the...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...at the time. Then the action plan became part of the European agenda on migration. They set out four pillars in that European agenda. Reducing the incentives and root causes for irregular immigration has never been tackled. Enhancing border controls through smarter borders has certainly been done as we build up to a 10,000 man and woman Frontex border. 11 o’clock I will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (20 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 428 of 12 October 2021, the way in which her Department accommodates those impacted by the booking of immigration appointments by third party agents;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51703/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (12 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken to date to eliminate the practice of the appropriation by third parties of immigration appointments at Burgh Quay on the INIS website in order to offer those appointments for sale to persons seeking appointments; the analysis undertaken by her Department to establish the extent of the issue; the number of...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...would welcome asylum seekers to their town if it were done properly. I remember Deputy Stanton, the former Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality with responsibility for equality, immigration and integration, talked about a pilot project for communities and facilitating communities to help them. I wonder if the Minister could come back to that in his closing speech....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda National Immigration Bureau (21 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the guidance provided to local Garda National Immigration Bureau stations with regard to the renewal and registration of permissions in respect of clients that are in possession of a letter from immigration service delivery stating that they may register without the requirement of a passport; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda National Immigration Bureau (21 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 1445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of ongoing training provided to local Garda National Immigration Bureau officers in relation to changes in immigration law and immigration policy; the details of the body or organisation providing the training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19705/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (31 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 778. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to further extend all immigration permissions beyond 20 April 2021 in view of the ongoing level 5 restrictions, the international travel advice currently in place and the entry restrictions in other countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16395/21]